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Everyone that tried to do what Google does with less people has failed. Anyway, my experience working at a startup that went from a few hundred customers to hu
by spamizbad 2y ago
Everyone that tried to do what Google does with less people has failed.
Anyway, my experience working at a startup that went from a few hundred customers to hundreds of thousands (B2B, with each customer being very high volume): Scale requires headcount. Our customer base increased 2000x and our engineering headcount went up 50x. But our product is now far more capable than it was back when I started. It was simple enough I could fit the whole thing in my head as a mid-level engineer. Not the case anymore...
- paulpauper 2y agoGoogle became Google with far fewer people. It was already dominant by 2004 or so. Now it seems bloated.
- spamizbad 2y agoGoogle in 2004 didn't have YouTube or GSuite or Android. It was not a cloud provider. They did not have a de-facto monopoly on search. It hadn't even acquired DoubleClick yet. It was only just emerging as a major Internet advertiser. It didn't have a lot of things we now take for granted.